Kuso
| Release Date: July 21, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
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5
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5
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerJun 30, 2017
Kuso is a hallucinatory, scatological, grotesque, and occasionally hysterical work of utter mania, the kind of wild cinema that cuts through the noise of all safer, more marketable filmmaking. Read full review
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Village VoiceApril WolfeJul 19, 2017
Kuso is an astounding feat of animation, humor, and practical effects. Read full review
70
The VergeChris PlanteJul 4, 2017
“It’s the first movie / song / book about life in the Trump era” has become trite, so I’ll say this instead: the movie is often quite literally a load of shit. But that can be comfortingly frank when it feels like the world is on fire, but we’re all just going to smile anyway. Read full review
67
The Film StageJohn FinkJun 30, 2017
Sick and twisted for the sake of being sick and twisted, Kuso is a certainly not a film for everyone, or perhaps anybody. I imagine the experience is like being high on something spiked with an agent that can induce awful nightmares. Though I’m not sure being drunk or high will make Kuso a delightful experience. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsJul 21, 2017
Kuso may often feel unproductively loud, and monotonous, but it is a head-scratcher worth contending with. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJul 27, 2017
Sensitive readers should be informed that Kuso is not for you; even those with a strong tolerance for monster-movie gore are far from guaranteed to accept its warm, clumpy bath of repugnant ickiness. Read full review
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Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayJul 20, 2017
Kuso won’t be for everybody. It’s gross, it’s repetitive, and if it has a point, it’s hard to discern. But it’s not artless. Every densely layered image of oozing pus and gassy orifices is as imaginatively rendered as it is disgusting. Read full review
42
The PlaylistAndrew CrumpJul 20, 2017
If nothing else, think of it as a hilariously repugnant curio, the kind of transgressive art you’ll be unable to unpack because you’ll be too busy chugging ginger ale to bother. Read full review
40
Paste MagazineZach BudgorJul 27, 2017
It’s probably a tautology to say that the patchwork surrealism of Kuso doesn’t hang together as a coherent experience. Read full review
40
The GuardianJake NevinsJul 20, 2017
If the film wasn’t so cheekily self-aware it might be literally unbearable, but every so often it references its own grotesquerie. Read full review
30
VarietyDennis HarveyJun 30, 2017
The referentiality of “Kuso,” its general snark, and even its defensive self-criticism (characters state “I hate this movie!” more than once) fail to make it any more funny or inspired, let alone any less of a shapeless chore to sit through. Read full review
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